>>The turtle banning agenda has been primarily driven by emotional pleas and unsubstantiated here-say.



Bayou Bob instigated those regs plain and simple. If you're going to feed those folks in china you need to do it with FARM RAISED turtles, not wild caught Turtles from Texas, DUH.



>>Lets' find the real root causes of diminished Turtle populations. Let's not make a Straw Man argument and blame/scapegoat those most interested in Chelonian survival.



The current regs were a good stop gap measure, not the end all solution. Your biggest enemy is Animal right folks. You need tons of money to fight those folks.



Most of the law makers are pretty smart folks and will listen to common sense and logic, but I'm not so sure you can say the same for the Game & Fish Agencies.



There are ways to get this done, but I'm going to give you guys some advice:



1) stop posting your plans and strategies on PUBLIC FORUMS because you are HURTING YOURSELVES more than you are helping.



2) get politically active. get off this freaking forum and GET TO KNOW SOME POLITICIANS.



3) SUPPORT the politicians you know, and LOBBY the ones you don't know.



I'm telling you AR groups are the number one enemy. If you can beat them and STOP making enemies within your own ranks then you can win.



But if you insist on harping on the same old inaccuracies in this forum no one will want to help you (when I say you, I am talking in general terms not YOU specifically).
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